Song: Harry Hippie Song by: Bobby Womack Written by: Jim Ford Cover version: Calvin Richardson Photo credit: By Terrorfan - Own work, Usage: CC0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=100652216 Keyboard player: Gail Nobles Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles Today’s topic is Calvin Richardson. In 2009, he was chosen to record a tribute album to Bobby Womack. (Singing) Calvin Richardson sings Bobby Womack’s song Harry Hippie. He has the right voice for Bobby Womack’s songs. As I was saying in 2...
Mar 08, 2021•3 min
Song: Fresh Out Song by: Christone Kingfish Ingram Photo credit: By Rory Doyle - Own work, Usage CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=79453502 Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles Keyboard player: Gail Nobles Intro Today’s topic is Christone “Kingfish” Ingram. We always dig back through records and think of artist such as BB King, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, and Howlin’ Wolfe when we think of the blues. We have the blues soul artist of yesterday, but we also have some modern b...
Mar 02, 2021•3 min
Podcast Theme Song: Ain't Nothing Like That Old Fashioned Blues Podcast Theme Song By: Gail Nobles © 2021 Song: The Glory of Love Song by: Otis Redding Photo credit: Public Domain Thank you for listening to Podcast and Blues. I'm Gail Nobles, and I was just thinking today. There ain't nothing like that old fashioned blues. (Singing) What are they singing about today? Ain't nothin' like that old fashioned blues. What are they giving from the heart today? Ain't nothin' like that old fashioned blue...
Feb 07, 2021•4 min
Title: Billy Jones Blues _ Come Back Tonight Song by: Billy Jones Downloaded from: https://www.tribeofnoise.com/billyjonesbluez Usage: CC 4.0 BY-SHARE ALIKE -- Original artist: billyjonesbluez -- Music available on tribeofnoise.com -- ID: 9125 Photo credit: Billy Jones Good evening! I'm Gail Nobles It's time for Funk & Blues & Southern Soul .... R&B Whatever you want to call it, Jones has got it. So how are y'all doing out there? Are you waiting for a lover to come back home? Well, t...
Jan 12, 2021•3 min
Song and Story by: Gail Nobles © 2021 Keyboard player by: GailNobles Vocals by: Gail Nobles Voice actor: Gail Nobles Photo Credit: By Ronzoni - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40220633 Cry of the Blues/COVID Announcer: Good evening. I’m Gail Nobles, and I’m thinking about the artists we love. I’m thinking about BB King. Actor: I look at the world and the thrill is gone. Announcer: If you didn’t know what the blues was before, you know what it is now in COV...
Jan 10, 2021•2 min
Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles Music by: Gail Nobles Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Burks_in_Iceland.jpg#/media/File :Michael_Burks_in_Iceland.jpg Hi, I'm Gail Nobles, and today's topic is Michael Burks. Michael Burks was an electric blues and soul blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is best known for his tracks, "Everybody's Got Their Hand Out", "I Smell Smoke", and "Hard Come, Easy Go". ... (singing) Michael worked with Johnnie Taylor. Burks was known as "Ir...
Nov 24, 2020•2 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast vocals: Gail Nobles Song by: Peggy Scott & Jo Jo Benson Photo Credit: https://archive.org/details/cd_the-best-of-peggy-scott-jo-jo-benson_peggy-scott-and-jo-jo-benson Usage of photo: Fair use Like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell, Peggy Scott Adams and Jo Jo Benson were a great singing duo in soul blues. In the 60's, Peggy Scott teamed with Jo Jo Benson to record 3 million selling songs. One of my favorite songs from the duo is Magic Fingers. It's an uplifting song...
Nov 20, 2020•3 min
Title: Free Music and Free Beer Song by: Unreal_DM (ft. Admiral Bob, Sackjo22) Unreal DM’s remix of Admiral Bob’s bluesy theme song for the “Free Music & Free Beer" Usage: 2012 unreal_dm Licensed to the public under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Verify at http://ccmixter.org/files/unreal_dm/38156 Photo credit: Admiral Bob Hello! How are you doing out there tonight! It's been a crazy and sad year for the blues. That's why it's time for Admiral Bob's exciting theme song "Free Mus...
Oct 04, 2020•3 min
Bigg Robb - Southern Soul Podcast Theme by: Gail Nobles Photo Credit: Bigg Robb Usage: Fair Use Bigg Robb started in the music industry as a teenager disc jockey at a small radio station in Cincinnati, Ohio, in the late 70's. Through the early 80's he stayed in radio, focusing on soul and funk artists such as Bootsy Collins, Midnight Star, Zapp, and other greats of the era, often interviewing them on his shows. Robb would hang out with the soul and funk stars in recording studios. A man by the n...
Sep 02, 2020•3 min
Story: Blues 57- Rosco and Willie Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast theme: Blues 57 by Gail Nobles Art by: Gail Nobles It all started with two guys named Rosco and Willie. They brought back real music into their community. There wasn't much going on and times were tough. People were trying to make it. Rosco and Willie had just got out of the military. They were like brothers. Rosco was short and Willie was tall. Rosco and Willie started a radio show called Blues 57. Willie: Rosco! What you got in th...
Aug 14, 2020•4 min
Song Title: Old Alabama Usage: Public Domain https://archive.org/details/negroprisonsongs/OldAlabama.wav Good evening. Today's topic is prison blues. Work songs that the chain gang sang. A chain gang is a group of prisoners chained together to perform menial or physically challenging work as a form of punishment. Such punishment might include repairing buildings, building roads, or clearing land. The song I'm about to play is a negro prison song from The Mississippi State Penitentiary called "Ol...
May 02, 2020•4 min
Title: Buddy Guy + Junior Wells Interview by: Peter Stone Brown Downloaded from: https://archive.org/details/PeterStoneBrownInterviews/BuddyGuyJuniorWells.wav Usage: Public Domain Mark 1.0 Photo Credit: Wikipedia.org Usage: Fair use Buddy_Guy_Junior_Wells_Live_at_Yuhbin-Chokin_Hall_1990_CD.jpg Blues Music
Apr 14, 2020•12 min
Title: Making It On My Own By: Dellie Hoskie CC 4.0 BY-SHARE ALIKE -- Original artist: delliehoskie -- Music available on tribeofnoise.com https://www.tribeofnoise.com/delliehoskie Blues Music
Mar 10, 2020•4 min
Song Title: A Foolish Game (ft. Admiral Bob) Song by: Snowflake Downloaded from: http://ccmixter.org/files/snowflake/46164 Usage: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Photo Credit: Snowflake Hello Everyone! I'm Gail Nobles and I hope you're enjoying Podcast and Blues. Before I get started, I would like to say that there are different categories of blues. There is Country Blues, Chicago Blues, Soul Blues, and all types of blues. I remember when I first heard the music artist Sheryl Crow si...
Jan 13, 2020•4 min
Song by: Ida Cox Title: So Soon This Morning Cox, Ida 1923 24 Volume 2 11 Blues Ain't Nothin Else But Downloaded from: Archive.org Usage: Public Domain https://archive.org/details/CoxIda192324Volume211BluesAintNothinElseBut/Cox%2C+Ida+1923-24+Volume+2+01+So+Soon+This+Morning.flac Voice actor as Ida Cox: Gail Nobles Keyboard player with record: Gail Nobles Background vocals: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Wikipeda.org Usage: Fair use Ida Cox was a singer best known for her blues performances and recor...
Jan 09, 2020•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Song: Daddy's House Song by: Marie Queenie Lyons Keyboard and Vocals: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Google Images Cassie CJ Fox is so lucky. She can play all those great soul blues songs. I'm not allowed to play the songs. So I have to make bells and whistle sounds, and sing a little bit so you can know the tune. That's one difference between podcasting and radio. I don't believe that either one of them is easy to do. Today I heard Cassie playing a song I've never heard. It's a...
Dec 09, 2019•3 min
CROSSROADS BLUES Film by: John Doe Usage: Attribution 3.0 Downloaded from: Archive.org https://archive.org/details/Crossroads_french_documentary_on_Robert_Johnson Photo Credit: Wikipedia.org Usage: Fairuse Today on Podcast and Blues, I'm going to play a musical movie titled "Crossroads Blues". It is based on the legends of the black guitarist Robert Johnson who died mysteriously in 1938. Its a pact with the devil there. One night, at the crossroads, a man forces the fate and sells his soul to th...
Oct 20, 2019•1 hr 36 min
Muddy Waters Interview 31 July 1978 - 08:46 Interview by: Peter Stone Brown Downloaded from: Archive.org https://archive.org/details/PeterStoneBrownInterviews/Muddywaters.wav Usage: Public Domain Photo Credit: Lionel Decoster - Own work Wikipedia Usage: CC BY-SA 4.0 Coming up next is a Peter Stone Brown interview with Muddy Waters. Peter was a singer, songwriter, and freelance writer. He was a music editor for Philadelphia alternative weekly, and hosted radio shows. He wrote for CounterPunch and...
Oct 19, 2019•10 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Music arranged by: Gail Nobles Podcast theme song: Mud Morganfield Song by: Gail Nobles © 2019 Photo Credit: Mud Morganfield Usage: CC BY-SA 4.0/Wikipedia.com (Singing) Some legends are living through their children like Muddy Waters. You can hear him in his son's singing voice who's name is Mud Morganfield. Mr. Morganfield said that when he's up on stage, he always feels his pops is there with him. Mud Morganfield made an album performing several Muddy Water Songs. The nam...
Oct 04, 2019•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast Theme: Big Daddy Cade By Gail Nobles © 2019 Art by: Gail Nobles Keyboard player: Gail Nobles Applause: https://www.freesfx.co.uk Billy "Big Daddy" Cade played all over the country at festivals and concerts. He is a BB King Tribute Artist and sounds a lot like the king. Mr. Cade has performed as himself and as B.B. King playing the blues. He's a great guitarist. Cade has a wife name Bootsy because she owns so many boots, and she performs with Cade according to the ne...
Oct 02, 2019•4 min
Photo credit: Alize Tran - https://www.flickr.com/photos/alizetranphoto/9681428906/ Usage: CC BY 2.0/Wikipedia.com Gary Lee Clark Jr. .. born Feb 15, 1984. ...age 35. Gary is a musician from Austin, Texas. He is best known for his fusion of blues, rock, and soul music with elements of hip hop. He has shared the stage with Eric Clapton, BB King, and the Rolling Stones. His new album "This Land" was released on Feb. 22, 2019. In 2014, Gary was awarded a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B performa...
Sep 24, 2019•3 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Song by: Gail Nobles © 2019 Art by: Gail Nobles Weather Alert Sound by: http://www.orangefreesounds.com (Music and Song) Hurricanes are extremely powerful. They can cause so much damage to our land. Hurricanes are great tropical cyclones. So many people have lost their homes. Sometimes the storm will stand still. Sometimes a storm will roam. Hurricanes. Why do they come? We need to pray for all; not for some. Today it looks sunny. Not a cloud in the sky. And the winds are c...
Sep 14, 2019•1 min
Story: Blues 57 Story by: Gail Nobles © 2019 Music arranged by: Gail Nobles Art by: Gail Nobles The blues is constant. So many people want to tell their story. We have great blues singers flying high like airmen and women. Like military pilots fighting a world war to get their blues music heard. Altogether, they are one big plane. Blues 57! They are one sound. The sound of the blues. They are hope for the future in music. Times have been hard in music. Some artists got dropped by record labels. ...
Sep 07, 2019•2 min
Title: Everyday I Have the Blues Song by: James Brown Story by: Gail Nobles Music and vocals by: Gail Nobles Photo credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JamesBrownNY87.jpg Everyday I Have the Blues" first appeared on James Brown's album titled "Soul on Top". It is the 28th studio album. The album was released in April 1970, by King. "Everyday I Have the Blues" is a song that has been performed in a variety of styles. In 1955, B.B. King recorded the song. He's one of the main blues sing...
Aug 27, 2019•3 min
Photo Credit: Paul Hudson/flickr.com Usage: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) Grainne Duffy is another great singer who can sing the blues. She's also a guitarist and songwriter from Ireland. Grainne performs in blues festivals, and her music can be heard on Soundcloud, Spotify, and you can see videos of her on YouTube. In Grainne's early life, according to her bio, as a schoolgirl, she sang in her local choir and also in a family band with her sisters. Not having a television in their home, h...
Aug 18, 2019•2 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Photo Credit: AndréLegault Usage: Wikipeida/CC BY-SA 4.0 Today I'm going to talk about Sugary Rayford. We have Sugaray the Soul Blues Singer, and he's Sugaray the Songwriter. He won Soul Blues Male Artist of the Year Blues Music Award. I love his debut soul album project titled, " The World That We Live In". There are a lot of things known about Sugaray. There is just one thing I would like to add. Sugaray is a great actor to me through his music. I love his video for his s...
Aug 14, 2019•3 min
Third Man Records has a release of Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969. There are 24 previously unheard songs of blues legend like Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, BB King, James Cotton, T-Bone Walker, Junior Wells, Big Mama Thornton, and more. Get the Ann Arbor Blues Festival 1969 at thirdmanstore.com. https://thirdmanstore.com/ann-arbor-blues-festival-1969-volume-2 Blues Music
Aug 09, 2019•57 sec
Title of Jingle: Sound of the Fox - Soul of the Blues Jingle by: Gail Nobles © 2019 Music by: Producerloops.com Vocals by: Gail Nobles Fox call: Orangefreesounds.com Usage: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Photo credit: Cassie CJ Fox When you hear this sound... (Loop Sound) (Fox sound) It's the sound of the fox It's Soul of the Blues time with Cassie CJ Fox (Singer) You can hear Cassie CJ Fox on Taterpatchradio.com Mondays 5-8PM Blues Music...
Jul 24, 2019•1 min
Story by: Gail Nobles Podcast theme by: Gail Nobles © 2019 Music arranged by: Gail Nobles Photo Credit: The Soul City Sons The Soul City Sons! Check out their first single release, "Bobble Head". It's a unique dance song with a unique title. The Soul City Sons are the first Quartet of Southern Soul. There are four of them in the group. When you look for their song, look for the video titled "These are the Soul City Sons" on YouTube.com. You'll learn about who they are. Remy, J. Mac, Cook, and Ma...
Jul 12, 2019•2 min
Voice actor by: Gail Nobles Story by: Gail Nobles Photo credit: Doug Anderson/Flickr Usage: Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ I heard Drink Small say, "If you hear me sing the gospel, the blues come out. Hallelujah Boogaloo! Everybody got the blues. Christian people got the blues. You can't live without the blues." Hallelujah Boogaloo by Drink Small. Drink small once explained that there is a lot of tragedy in the world. That's why he believes that ...
Jun 28, 2019•2 min
